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Or, your daily dose of propaganda. Take your pick. Boy, these ads are just getting more and more annoying. I don't care if you smoke or not, but if you don't know that the stuff is bad for you, then you should probably not be allowed to dress yourself or play with objects even remotely sharp.

What bothers me is that these ads will no doubt soon be used against more of society's "ills" (and I assume you know where I'm going with this) although supposedly that won't happen according to the "TRUTH" website. I tried to find out who was bankrolling all this, since primetime ad space can't be cheap. Turns out that a lot of it comes from the cigarette companies themselves, no doubt as part of the settlement reached with the Feds a few years ago. The production is done by big-name advertising agencies. I guess that's another reason to be irked at S&W. Soon we'll see anti-self-defense ads sprouting up with those same cooked statistics we all know and love, all paid for by the gun industry.

I mean, how hard is it to change that stupid sign to go "There are......buzzzzzzzz...15 children a day killed by gunfire in the United States." Heck. you can make it say 50 if you want if no one is allowed rebuttal.

Yecchh.
 
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I'll state up front that I am totally against smoking, and believe that companies should not be allowed to sell such an addictive substance*.

However, these "the truth" ads really prote the concept of self-polluter as victim. As Gopher is saying, if you're that dumb, maybe you ought not have a driver's license. The next time I gorge on Edy's Chocolate Swirl ice cream, I'm going to sue Edy's for ruining my physical conditioning and the requisite adjustments to wardrobe. Waahhh. Whatever happened to choices -> consequences?

* My solution to the problem is to outlaw OTC sales of any strongly addictive substance, and require an Rx for nicotine. Once the addiction is decoupled from the product, we'll quickly see how much is choice and how much is chemical compulsion.
 
Well, as a smoker for 34 years, I've seen up close and personal how it's done. First they said they needed separate sections on planes for smokers and non smokers. Sounds reasonable, right? Then they said they needed separate sections in restaurants. Reasonable?
Then they said smoking would be prohibited on flights under two hours. Then eight hours. Then no smoking on flights at all. Then no smoking in public buildings. Then no smoking in restaurants that didn't have $$$ ventilation systems. Then, in many locales, no smoking in bars or restaurants at all. Then, again in some locales, no smoking within 15 feet of a public building. Then they turned to the manufacturers and extorted billions from them in the name of people who, if they didn't know the effects of smoking, would have to be blind and deaf. Then they turned to the smokers themselves. There's billboards all over my city that say, "kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray," with an appropriately disgusting visual. The societal pressures are mounting.
I hear through the grapevine that a potential client would like to work with me, but they whisper to their associates, "but I hear he smokes." Even though I don't smoke in the presence of non-smokers. And it is whispered in tone that used to be reserved for expressions such as, "but I hear he's gay," or "black," or whatever.

That's how they're coming after us. There's already clients who won't work with me because they know I'm a gunowner. You're damned right that they'll use any money they get from any deals with gunmakers for advertising. They'll make gun owners social pariahs. And we'll pay for the advertising through gun purchases, just as I pay for the anti-smoking advertising through my cigarette purchases. And there's no way to stop it, unless you can outspend the government you're paying to alienate you.

Dick
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